xvii, 251 p. : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Organized Crime Penetrations of Legitimate Businesses -- Models and Images of Organized Crime -- The Assets and Resources of Organized Crime Groups -- Racketeering in Legitimate Businesses -- Strategies of Infiltration into the Legitimate Sectors -- Dangerous Intersections: Organized Crime and Legitimate Business -- Organized Crime in Russia and Chicago: Survival of the Fittest -- Mafia and Repressive Stability in the South of Italy -- Power Politics and Organized Crime -- The Infiltration of Organized Criminal Groups into U.S. Trade Unions -- The Early Days -- Labor Organizes -- Mafia -- The McClellan Committee -- The New Mob -- 25 Years after Valachi -- The President's Commission on Organized Crime -- Unions, Gangsters, and Employers in Retrospect -- Consent Decrees and Trusteeships: Law Enforcement Responses -- The Teamsters -- Philadelphia Roofers Union, Local 30/30B -- Teamster Local 560 -- The Scope of Labor Racketeering -- The Needle Trades -- The Mine Workers: A Case of Corporate Gangsterism -- Hollywood and Hoodlums -- Master Builders, Master Criminals: Corruption and Racketeering in the Construction Industry -- The Construction Industry in New York City -- Classification of Construction -- High-Rise, High-Cost Construction -- The "Achilles Heel" in the Construction Industry: A Catalogue of Crime -- A Fit of Absent-Mindedness: Criminal Go-Betweens in Historical Perspective -- Extortion -- Bribery -- Theft -- Frauds -- Performance Bond Fraud -- Collusive Bidding and Bid Rigging -- Racketeering and Corruption Implications -- Racketeering Susceptibility -- The Labor Market -- Collective Bargaining -- Competitive and Fragmented Economic Environment -- Cost of Delays -- Racketeering Potential -- The Indispensable Men: Racketeers at Large and at Work -- The Last Waterfront: The Fulton Fish Market and the ILA as Family Businesses -- Project "Underworld" -- Postwar Period and Revitalization -- Waterfront Racketeering: The ILA and Criminal Collusions -- The Pizza Connection: Selling Dough and Dope -- The Heroin Pipeline -- The Legitimate Business as a "Front" -- The Networks -- The Investigation -- The Prosecution -- The Verdict -- The Politics and Economics of Drugs -- Dirty Dollars: The Carting and Waste Disposal Industries -- Environmental Protection and Organized Crime: Problems and Prospects -- Controlling Waste Disposal -- New York City and the Garbage Cartel -- Other Crimes, Other Criminals: Racketeering in Chinatown and Brighton Beach -- Chinatown -- The Tongs and Organized Crime -- The "Hatchet Men" -- Triads, or the White Lotus Society Reincarnated -- The Chinese Underworld Today -- Tong and Gang Relationships with Police -- Extortion in Chinatown -- Brighton Beach: Little Odessa by the Sea -- Gasoline Bootlegging -- The "Daisy Chain" and the "Burn" -- The Mafia and the Mafiya -- Polluted Petroleum -- Criminal Opportunities in Legitimate Businesses: Control Policy Issues -- Organized Crime as a Spectacle -- Tactics and Strategies -- The Maneuvers of Money Laundering -- Infiltrating Legitimate Businesses -- The Role of Intelligence -- The Tools of Analytical Intelligence -- Telephone Record Analysis (TRA) -- Association Analysis (AA) -- Net Worth Analysis (NWA) -- Business Record Analysis (BRA) -- Threat Assessment (TA) -- Traditional and Nontraditional Organized Crime Groups -- Prosecutorial Efforts Against Organized Crime Infiltrations -- Role of Crime Commissions and Hearings as a Control Mechanism -- The Witness Security Program (WSP) -- Cooperation and Coordination among Law Enforcement Agencies -- Blacklisting Public Contractors as an Anticorruption and Racketeering Strategy -- The Future of Organized Crime -- The Troika of Organized Crime -- Business Vulnerabilities -- Racketeering Enterprises and Domination -- Public and Private Partnerships -- Regulation

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